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Étiqueté : Dutch Art and Architecture

Parution : Mariam Hammami, “Veritatis Imago”, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2023

The study analyzes differentiated concepts of truth in Dutch prints of the 16th and 17th centuries. Against the backdrop of religious and political crises of the time, it elaborates on how copperplate engravings and etchings not only represent veritas but, by problematizing their own medial status, reflect on visual forms of evidence generation and art’s specific capacity for truth. Source

Parution : Marsely Kehoe, “Trade, Globalization, and Dutch Art and Architecture”, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2023

We all look to our past to define our present, but we don’t always realize that our view of the past is shaped by subsequent events. It’s easy to forget that the Dutch dominated the world’s oceans and trade in the seventeenth century when our cultural imagination conjures up tulips and wooden shoes instead of spices and slavery. This book examines the Dutch so-called “Golden Age” though its artistic and architectural legacy, recapturing the global...